Poll: Mexico poised to disappear behind the Iron Curtain

Well, OK, so perhaps I exaggerate. But only just. Americans should be alarmed at the new poll showing leftist-populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor also known by the acronym AMLO (for his initials), with a commanding 18-point lead and 38 percent support in the presidential election that takes place July 1. Mexicans should be even more alarmed, of course, that a leftist who hesitated last May to criticize the human rights record of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro should be this close to ruling their country. But Americans have a lot to lose as well. President Trump, having stoked tensions with our southern neighbor, may get more than he bargained for if Mexican voters choose a far-left government headed by the man who lost and then famously refused to concede the 2006 general election. More…